Private Samuel Greenwood
Army Number: 24880
Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Son of Isaac Greenwood, of 5 Chapel Street, Killamarsh, Derbyshire and lived at Chesterfield. Husband of Paulina Greenwood, of 66 Rutland Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting on 30th March 1915 at Chesterfield into the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to Gallipoli on 14th November 1915 and suffered from dysentery and was evacuated to the hospital at Mustapha, Egypt 19th March 1916. He went to France on 5th July 1916 but was admitted to the 24th General Hospital at Etaples, on 19th June 1916, again suffering from dysentery. He rejoined his battalion on 7th August 1916.
He was admitted to the 33rd Field Ambulance suffering from diarrhoea on 25th January 1917 and then was transferred to the 2nd Stationary Hospital at Abbeville, France on 31st January 1917. After being transferred to the 2nd Canadian General Hospital at Le Treport, France, he was sent back to England on 8th February 1917, via Hospital Ship Dunluce Castle.
He was posted to the 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at Sunderland on 16th November 1917 and returned to France on 5th December 1917.
He was hospitalised again in the 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital at Doullens, France suffering from diarrhoea on 28th February 1918. He was then transferred to the 2nd Stationary Hospital at Abbeville, on 1st March 1918, before being transferred to the 5th Convalescent Depot at Cayeux, France, on 1st April 1918. He proceeded to the front on 11th April 1918 with the 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was posted to the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on the 17th of June 1918.
On the 5th September 1918, he suffered gas poisoning and was treated at 24 Field Ambulance on 6th September 1918. He was then transferred to the 7th Casualty Clearing Station at Ligny St. Flochel, France, on 7th September 1918, before being admitted to the 2nd Stationary Hospital at Abbeville, on 8th September 1918. On the 15th of September 1918, he was taken to the 5th Convalescent Depot at Cayeux. In recovery, he was transferred to the Labour Corps on 26th October 1918. He was demobilised to Class Z Army Reserve on 7th July 1919 at Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
He committed suicide on 8th December 1919, aged 42, at his home address of 66 Rutland Road Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Buried: Chesterfield (Spital) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Old. 4549.
